Underlying

"Underlying" in a Sentence (18 examples)

We should understand the underlying premises.

We will study the underlying molecular occurrences of fertilization.

They used the Internet too much because they had some underlying problem that also caused them to neglect their child.

We still have to solve the underlying problem.

The underlying causes of the problem are widely known.

The right of a state to exist is antithetical to the principle supposedly underlying liberal democracy, that people who are subject to a state's rule have the right to abolish it.

“We’re a city with a high rate of poverty, and that can sometimes lead to these underlying health issues because of less access to quality foods and proper healthcare,” says Mollie Pate, a gym owner and local musician.

Among the familiar things that he would encounter would be creatures recognizably human yet in his view grotesque. While he himself laboured under the weight of his own body, these giants would be easily striding. He would consider them very sturdy, often thick-set, folk, but he would be compelled to allow them grace of movement and even beauty of proportion. The longer he stayed with them the more beauty he would see in them, and the less complacently would he regard his own type. Some of these fantastic men and women he would find covered with fur, hirsute, or mole-velvet, revealing the underlying muscles. Others would display brown, yellow or ruddy skin, and yet others a translucent ash-green, warmed by the under-flowing blood. As a species, though we are all human, we are extremely variable in body and mind, so variable that superficially we seem to be not one species but many.

Knowing the International Phonetic Alphabet as it pertains to English helps understanding the underlying mechanisms of English phonology blanketed by an awkward orthography.

There is no underlying condition.

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We dug down to the underlying rock.

Old Yew, which graspest at the stones ⁠That name the under-lying dead, ⁠Thy fibres net the dreamless head, Thy roots are wrapt about the bones.

During the track renewals, advantage was taken to redrain the area and the old spent ballast was removed down to the underlying rock, new ballast and drains being provided throughout.

Sometimes, the underlying layers are exposed by erosion, revealing the story of the rocks like an open book.

Points and straight lines are underlying elements of geometry.

Finding a successful treatment for Alzheimer’s faces two major hurdles: the first being we still don’t know enough about the disease’s underlying biology.

The underlying problem with transport policy is that there no coherent strategy. Ministers have tended to encourage greater use of motor vehicles through both transport and (particularly) planning policies, while simultaneously warning of the terrible consequences of unfettered growth of road use.

Many nursery rhymes have an underlying meaning.

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